Paint­ing the ex­te­rior in Pho­to­shop

The first thing I do when I get my base ren­ders is make a list of all the changes I want to make. For the rover I look at how to get back to the faceted look that I was orig­i­nally go­ing for. This means sim­pli­fy­ing sur­faces wher­ever pos­si­ble, in par­tic­u­lar the area around the es­cape hatch. I don’t change too much how­ever, be­cause I need to stick to the met­ric block-out I started out with. In ad­di­tion, I check in with the 3D de­part­ment, to en­sure that the new shapes I’m com­ing up with are phys­i­cally pos­si­ble.